Alice Cooper « Devil on My Shoulder Book Tour »

Alice Cooper brings the Devil on My Shoulder Book Tour to Brighton Dome, Brighton, on 14 October 2026. Born Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit, he first made noise at the turn of the 1970s with the band that took his stage name, sharpening a sound between garage bite, hard rock and glam while inventing a form of theatre steeped in horror films and cabaret. Albums like Love It to Death, Killer and School’s Out set the tone before he carried the name into a solo career with Welcome to My Nightmare, weaving narratives, vaudeville touches and ballads into his rock palette. Across decades and records — from Billion Dollar Babies and Muscle of Love to Trash, The Last Temptation, Brutal Planet, Welcome 2 My Nightmare and Detroit Stories — his grainy voice and taste for staging have remained a thread.

This date trades props for stories. Cooper revisits the birth of the character, the Phoenix years, studio sessions behind the hits and the craft that turned riffs into scenes. Between readings from his memoir Devil on My Shoulder and an onstage conversation, he opens the archive with anecdotes, context and the method behind the makeup.